For my way of looking at it and my two pennies worth, nobody deserves to be in the position of this young man. When I was his age I had grown up and had already been in the RN four years, They seem to mature much later these days. Was he irresponsible, it certainly looks that way, but I wouldn't wish his outcome on my worst enemy, to be honest. If he is severely brain-damaged as reports suggest, well then his life as he knew it is over. A sad ending for a 20-year-old that made a couple of silly young man's errors.